Their latest piece was no exception. Its premise, in not so many words, was something like, “OMG newsflash: College girls are having no-strings-attached sex. On purpose.”

Yawn.

Reporter Kate Taylor’s “Sex on Campus: She Can Play at That Game, Too” dominated Sunday’s Style cover with an accompanying illustration of a naked thigh and a girl buried in bed sheets and shadows. The 4,800-word totally un-groundbreaking feature read like a do-over of this, this, this and this, as Slate points out in a critique of the hook-up culture beat. It follows the sex lives of several women on the UPenn campus, who trade emotionally invested relationships for forward-looking aspirations like career, grad school upward mobility. Somewhere in the middle, the tale switches from sexting, booty calls and virginity loss to one of rape, regret and a lack of fulfillment.

In a roundtable discussion on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Taylor says her piece, which she worked on exclusively for an entire school year, isn’t representative of the whole campus (no kidding: No mention of LGBT or male students at all). Taylor explains:

“What I came away with…is that this has been a profound social change that has happened over the past several decades and things have really changed since the time when my mom was going to college, when women, even if they were going to college and they were a minority then, kind of expected to get married soon after college and if they were pursuing a career, they were not going to be the breadwinner…”

Things have changed, but, as Jezebel points out, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. And the message can stop getting transmogrified into a narrative of casual sex as a cautionary tale of date rape.

Says Jezebel’s Kate Dries: “… but that continuing to write “deep investigative pieces” about women’s sex lives while interviewing men and lesbians and bisexual women and leaving them out of the piece, makes this a woman’s issue, in a way that Salon‘s Anna North explains is “intended to worry” the audience reading it.”

For a more accurate (and less sensational) glimpse inside UPenn’s hook-up (and relationship) culture, read this student’s account of what Taylor got right and where she missed the mark.